Theaterrific!: Five Facts You Should Know About Xanadu the Musical and its Manila Production

Theaterrific!: Five Facts You Should Know About Xanadu the Musical and its Manila Production:

"Number ONE: The musical is more of a parody, rather than an adaptation of the 1980 movie starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.

Number TWO: Kira, the lead character, has this exaggerated Australian accent. Why? Since it’s a parody, they’re trying to spoof Olivia Newton-John who plays the lead in the movie. Newton-John is an Australian.

Number THREE: Aside from Sonny Malone’s short shorts, the musical is also short with just one act.

Number FOUR: Six actors will be on skates including Kira and Sonny. This means a lot of dancing on skates! Exciting!

Number FIVE: This will be Chari Arespacochaga’s return AS A STAGE ACTOR since Dogeaters in 2007. She plays Melpomene, one of the evil women, and, for those who are asking, her role is not black, okay?! Not because she's belting, it already means that the role should be black. (And you don’t ask questions like 'is your role black?' Because aside from that being a nonsense question, you’ll sound a little racist. :-) I told you I'm nice, I even give advices to other people, oh!)"